On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:18:57 +0100 Maximilian Engelhardt
<m...@daemonizer.de> wrote:
> On Montag, 11. Dezember 2023 08:51:36 CET Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Unless I misunderstood, this is due to a change of debhelper behavior
> > since compatibility level 10. This leaves me with two possible
> > solutions:
> >
> > 1) No dh_install option. This will restart after upgrade (default since dh
> > 10).
> >
> > 2) Add --no-stop-on-upgrade --no-restart-after-upgrade options. This
> > will explicitely disable stop and restart actions.
> >
> > Maximilian, which one of these two would make the most sense to you?
> >
> > Here, I only use the binaries via ifupdown (i.e. only dhcpcd-base), so
> > I have no preference.
> >
> > Martin-Éric
>
> Hi Martin-Éric,
>
> I think for me both options should work. I guess for maximising uptime it
> would make sense to not restart dhcpcd and if it is important enough (e.g. due
> a security bug) inform the user (e.g. via NEWS) that a manual restart should
> happen as soon as possible.
>
> Now that I think more about it, not stopping and starting automatically is
> probably the better option, because if something goes wrong during the update
> or the update is just stuck at a prompt it could else leave the system without
> network connectivity.
> Better that stopping and starting again some time later would probably be just
> doing an restart once (stop and directly start again without delay) if that's
> possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Maxi

I've uploaded the fix to unstable.

Since this is not the sort of urgent issue that would warrant a
separate update to Bookworm, I won't upload it there for now. However,
I'll definitely include it if there ever is a security issue that
requires an upload to Bookworm.

Martin-Éric

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